Experiment Station

Each semester CHASES conducts scholarly workshops that we call “Experiment Stations.” An experiment station consists of a short presentation followed by a longer period of time dedicated to question and answer, comments, and feedback from MSU faculty members, librarians, and graduate students. This is a great opportunity to focus a research question, sharpen presentation skills, discover new sources, and generate a larger network of colleagues who can be of great value. Although most experiment stations center on the work of historians, periodically, scholars in allied or affiliated fields workshop their research as part of the “Intersections Series.”

2018-2019

Fraser Livingston, Mississippi State University, February 8, 2019, 4pm in the Institute for the Humanities-"Forestry's Crossings: French and American Naval Stores Production in a Progressive Age" Flyer (PDF)

Mikko Saikku, Helsinkin University, November 16, 2018, 4pm in the Institute for the Humanities- "Manly Nations through Nature: Landscape, Hunting, and the Wilderness Idea in North America and Nordic Countries" Flyer (PDF)

Lisa Brady, Boise State University, September 7, 2018, 4pm in the Institute for the Humanities - "Bridging the Divide: Nature, Science, and Poltiics on the Korean Peninsula" Flyer (PDF)

2017-2018

Andrew Morris, Union College, April 6, 2018, 4pm in the Institute for the Humanities Building - "Race, Rights, and Disaster Relief: Hurricane Camille and the New Politics of Disaster" Flyer (PDF)

Intersections Series: Classical and Modern Languages and Literature: Keith Moser, March 9, 2018, 4pm in the Institute for Humanities Building - "The Interdiscipline of Cosmic Historiograpy: A Thought Experiment Inspired by Michel Serres's Philosophy and J. M. G. Le Clezio's Fiction" Flyer (PDF)

Will Bryan, Otober 13, 2017, 4pm in the Institute for Humanities Building - "Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soils: The First Generation of 'Green Developers'" Flyer (PDF)

Muey Saeturn, October 21, 2016, 4pm in the Institute for Humanities Building - "Kenya's Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Era of Decolonization" Flyer (PDF)

Jason Hauser, September 23, 2016, 4pm in the Institute for the Humanities Building - "'Cool freedom is far better than hot oppression': Heat and Slavery in the Antebellum South" Flyer (PDF)

2015-2016

Alix Hui, January 22, 2016, 4pm in the Institute for Humanities Building - "From Vogelflote to wichity, wichity, wichity: Standardizing the Sounds of Nature in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century" Flyer (PDF)

Intersections Series: Plant and Soil Sciences: Brien Henry, November 20, 2015, 4pm in the Institute for Humanities Building - "Corn Production in the Mid-South" Flyer (PDF)